페북실명제, 게이커뮤니티 반발 LGBT community lauds Facebook over 'real name' policy
페이스북이 회원 실명제를 실시하겠다고 밝힌 후 이를 둘러싼 찬반 양론이 심화되고 있다. 일부는 페이스북의 이와 같은 움직임을 찬성하고 있지만,…
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Couple Who Tortured And Killed Child They Thought Was Gay To Take Plea Deal
Couple Who Tortured And Killed Child They Thought Was Gay To Take Plea Deal
A woman and her boyfriend who tortured and murdered her 8-year-old son because they thought he was gay have been spared the death penalty thanks to a plea deal.
Pearl Fernandez, who over an eight-month period assaulted Gabriel Hernandez with pepper spray, forced him to eat vomit, denied him use of the bathroom, beat him with a belt buckle and a metal bat, and shot him with a BB gun (among other unimaginable horrors) because he liked to play with dolls, initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, along with her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre.
But according to reports, in exchange for changing their plea to guilty of first degree murder and torture, the pair will spend life in prison without parole. They have also waived their right to an appeal.
Contributors to a Facebook page called Gabriel’s Justice are calling the development “a great thing,” citing the fact that California has not executed a prisoner in almost a decade and that a death-penalty trial would likely drag on for several years, providing “no closure for anyone.”
If there’s any justice for 8-year-old Gabriel, it’s that the plea will keep the killers out of solitary confinement and put them in the general prison population, where child abusers are said to be the most hated. And tortured.
Winston Gieseke
LGBT COFEE 63 /29 Âu Dương Lân, P3, Q8
LGBT COFEE 63 /29 Âu Dương Lân, P3, Q8
Cà phê, trà sữa, nước trái cây… Thức ăn nhẹ…..
Comercial olímpico a favor de los derechos LGBT
Comercial olímpico a favor de los derechos LGBT
El comercial se llama ‘Airport Love’ (amor de aeropuerto) y fue creado para la línea XXL. El mensaje es que el deporte es para todos, sin importar para qué equipo juegas. Fue pasado al mismo…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ng3rz2_JkA&feature=youtube_gdata
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America's 10 Worst LGBT Work Insults
America's 10 Worst LGBT Work Insults
The world’s first report on measuring the value of LGBT workplace diversity in dollar terms is about to be released.
The new report, “LGBT Diversity: Show Me the Business Case,” reveals that companies that bother to invest resources in making workplaces more welcoming and comfortable for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff can realize big returns, from increasing productivity to reducing exits by LGBT staff who feel uncomfortable.
In the UK this is a big issue, and as you will see below, it is also a major issue in the U.S.
It costs a lot to replace lost staff, so this new report is timely — and important — for American business.
This latest pre-release data for the U.S. from the largest global LGBT research initiative, LGBT2020, reveals what life in 2014 is like for LGBT Americans at work.
And, unfortunately, the news from the U.S. workplace is not that good.
It’s Not a “Lifestyle”; It’s a Life
Sometimes progress is hard to judge when we only have our own experiences to measure against. Life can seem fine or rather bleak, depending on what happens in our daily lives.
Learning from others’ experiences is incredibly insightful — and empowering.
It may surprise you, for example, to learn that 9 percent of respondents to the U.S. LGBT2020 research sample reported that they have been refused goods or services in the past 12 months because they were perceived to to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Almost one in eight (12 percent) reported having been harassed by a neighbor, and 7 percent reported having been physically attacked.
Four out of every 10 respondents (40 percent) were verbally abused at least once last year for being LGBT.
And one in every six respondents (16 percent) was harassed at work. To put that into perspective, America is home to more than 15 million LGBT people, with more than 10 million who are currently working full-time — and almost 2.5 million LGBT Americans personally experienced harassment at work last year.
But here is the worst part: The number of LGBT Americans who feel able to be out to everyone at work has gone down in the two years since Out Now‘s last U.S. LGBT2020 sample and is now down to just 38 percent.
When we look at some of the insults being made in U.S. workplaces listed below, we start to understand why that number has fallen so low.
Hard Labor
The new report highlights new market data from 10 countries around the world.
Fewer than one in five LGBT workers in the U.S. (18 percent) agrees with the statement “This is a workplace entirely free from homophobia.”
Almost one in two respondents (49 percent) saw or heard homophobic incidents last year.
Religious Intolerance
One of the key differences between the UK and U.S. samples in the LGBT2020 research is the far greater mentioning of religion that American respondents report.
Darren Cooper, a senior consultant with Out Now who is based in London, said the new U.S. results surprised him.
“In the UK we consider that religion has no practical place at work,” Cooper says. “These latest findings from our LGBT2020 study for the U.S. show a vastly different situation to the UK. In the U.S. people feel much less able to be out with all their work colleagues, are more likely to have witnessed anti-LGBT remarks at work and, worryingly, have the added pressure of colleagues using religion to justify making insulting remarks. Many of these types of remarks would cause an outcry if they happened in a UK workplace.”
Cooper cited as just one example the short but powerful remark made to a lesbian respondent: “I am praying for you.”
“That comment is incredibly loaded, as it suggests the person that said it is a ‘good’ person, with the implication that the person being spoken to is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ in some way. These findings show there is an enormous amount of work still to do, around religion and also general workplace acceptance of LGBT people as equally respected employees in America’s workplaces.”
First, the Good News
It is not all bad news, though. Happily, some respondents — a small minority, it must be admitted — chose to comment positively on their workplaces.
Here are some of their remarks:
- “Our GM in training is an out and proud lesbian woman and we have many, many out LGBT co-workers who are absolutely supported, including myself. I don’t know about other locations in my company, but I know at mine, I’m a family member.”
- “I have worked for Bank of America for 18 years, they are GREAT on this topic and loads more.”
- “Everyone in the company I work for, has a ‘live, and let live’ philosophy.”
- “It’s usually new people that don’t know what to think about me. Like I’m going to hit on them or something. But they usually come around.”
- “A bi (but not out) staff member of mine has recently been bullied by his co-workers. I as supervisor am in the process of investigating and will be disciplining offending staff, if not terminating them.”
- “Of the 60 staff members that work for my organization, 20 identify as LGBT. I can say with integrity that there is not a homophobic bone in this organisation’s body.”
The 10 Worst Anti-LGBT Work Insults in the U.S.
We have left out of the list below numerous examples of people reporting what they saw as “normal” workplace banter, such as “That’s so gay,” “f*ggot” and various other examples of name calling.
These are just 10 of the hundreds of comments made to this year’s LGBT2020 research by U.S. respondents, who chose to write — in their own words — what is happening right now in their workplaces.
“Room for improvement” is an understatement.
- “I can’t add your wife to your health insurance because your marriage isn’t ‘real'”
- “It’s just a decision, I don’t support the choice to be unnatural. Just be straight like the rest of us”
- “You are not angry enough to be a real lesbian: you’re not like the other girl who works here”
- “I would just like to round up the people suffering like you and shoot them all, or to torture you — just to make fun of you”
- “People like you can’t be a Christian, you’re a sinner but I love you despite your choices”
- “Now you and that other f*g can add your boyfriends to the work medical plans, that way when you get AIDS you will all be covered”
- “I don’t like those kind of people with ‘scary’ sexual preferences”
- “Please, I don’t want to hear the details of your lifestyle”
- “That patient is gay and HIV+, why isn’t he in some kind of isolation”
- “You will burn down the gates of hell for being gay”
Out Now will be presenting key findings from this new report in a “Global Series” workshop at the 16th Out & Equal Workplace Summit in San Francisco at Moscone West Convention Center on Thursday, Nov. 6.
To request a free copy of the new “LGBT Diversity: Show Me the Business Case” report, just fill in this form and Out Now will send you a copy when released.
Incredible Kick-Off to ‘Every Vote Counts’ GOTV Tour
Incredible Kick-Off to ‘Every Vote Counts’ GOTV Tour
HRC President Chad Griffin meets with LGBT champion Senator Jeff Merkley and Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, Secretary of State Kate Brown, and Speaker Tina Kotek.
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PHOTOS: Halloween With The Gurls and Ghouls of RuPaul’s Drag Race
PHOTOS: Halloween With The Gurls and Ghouls of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Club promoter Brandon Voss put together a spooky evening with a crew of RuPaul’s Drag Race favorites to get New Yorkers in the Halloween spirit. Ivy Winters, Courtney Act, Milk, Darienne Lake, and Alaska joined a team of local gurls and ghouls for a special one night only event in a massive 5,000 square foot Haunted Manor with gory themed rooms, corridors, and a labyrinth of passageways. Sharon Needles hosted and evening and cackled as guests entered and welcomed them to her haunted house. The Haunted Manor was the finale to a weekend of events Scream Queen Sharon Needles hosted in New York City. Screams shifted to laughter and more mayhem as DJ Honey Dijon and Dirty Martini flipped the crowd afterwards at Up & Down Sundays.
Photos by Wilsonmodels
Ivy Winters
Alaska and Brandon Voss
Darienne Lake
Courtney Act
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My opinion on LGBT and New Shirts
My opinion on LGBT and New Shirts
